Kenneth Stein, PhD Biography

William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies at Emory University

Position:

Pro to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"

Reasoning:

"The Palestinian quest for self-determination just like the State of Israel cannot be physically destroyed; Israel can not absorb 3 million Palestinians and still be a majority Jewish state. Separating the two communities, the partition of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean and the creation of two independent states remains as it has been for over sixty years the only viable options for a political solution."

"American Mediation of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A positive Assessment of the April 2002 Powell Mission," Rivista Italiana Di Geopoliti, May 2002